Improvement in apparatus for curing tobacco



J. B. DAY. APPARATUS FOR CURING TOBACCO.

Patented March14,-1876.

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NVPETERS, PHDTQLITHOGRAPHER, WASHINIGTON. D C.

UNITED ST TES ATnn OF ICE A i JOHN B. DAY, or WOODSDALE, NORTH CAROLINA.

' IMPROVEMENT m APPARAT-us FOR CURING-TOBACCO.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 174,786, dated March14, 1876; application filed I November 3, 1875.

pipe or flue, and adapted to be employed in connection with said.separate fines, so as to join the two at their rear ends, forming onecontinuous fine, as fully hereinafter setaforth and shown.

Thel etter A represents the drying room or chamber, generallyconsistingof the lower room or story of an ordipgpry barn, and B B, theheating fines or furnaces, extending from the outside of the barn, infront, directly back nearly to the rear. where they are bent or turnedtoward each other, as shown. From the end of each of said furnaces B Bextends an inclined return-flue, (3," passing through the front wall ofthe room'or chamber above and betiveen the furnaces and fines. Saidpipes or fines may be provided with dampers if desired. The fines B Bmay be constructed of masonry or of metal, or partly of masonry andpartly of metal, the pipes or fines 0 being usually constructed of sheetmetal.

The letter E represents a short flue, or seetion of aflue, adapted tofit between the opposite ends of thefiues B B, and provided withopenings F at opposite sides, whichcommnnicate with openings G at theends of the fines B B, which are.closed by suitable doors or damperswhen the short section or flue E is removed. Said flue E, or section, isprovided with a defiectingplate, 0, at its center,'to direct the smokeand other products of combustion to the escape-fine H, which extendsfrom said section at an inclination. through the front of the chamber orbarn 1 A.

Said short section or fiue is intended to conmeet the fiuesB together,so as to form, one i continuous flue, in order to increase the heatingeffect of the apparatus when desired, and when in place the dampers inthe. pipes (J may be so "turned as to direct all they products ofcombustion through saidpipe Hi1" or the pipes may be employed in'conjunction to carry off the same.

-As thus constructed, a: paratus is provided, at small GOstfWhiGIiQalLbe readily fitted or; secured in an ortmm ry barn or outhouse, and bymeans ofwhich the tobacco-wan beeconomically cured without danger tothesame from overheating or burn ing, as the fire is perfectly under.control, and

the temperature can be-regnlated with the greatest nicety; and as thefurnace-doors and escape-fines are both situated on'the same side of thebarn or chamber, they will both be under the control -of the operator atthe same time, materially lessening the risk.of the building or barntaking fire.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters 'Pat- In testimony that I claim the foregoing I j havehereunto set my hand in the presence of the subscribing witnesses.

-' JOHN B. DAY. Witnesses:

ROBT. W. JONES,

Tnos. P. DAVIS.

